InMotion is hiring a

Senior Backend Software Developer - Synaptiv

London, United Kingdom

Synaptiv is revolutionising the connected car industry, leveraging the data streamed off vehicles to build a host of innovative services which deliver unique insights around real time weather, hyperlocal air pollution monitoring and road quality assessment. We are pioneering the use of Big Data to solve real world problems, helping our customers to dramatically transform their business.

Synaptiv is backed by InMotion, the venture capital arm of Jaguar Land Rover. We have built a sophisticated cloud mobility platform that pulls in large volumes of real time data from vehicles and leverages advanced data science techniques to power actionable insights and unique services.

We are now looking for an experienced Backend Developer to join our talented team. You will help to scale the platform as we increase the amount of vehicle data being streamed through Kinesis to our API backend. Building a solid ingestion infrastructure in AWS from querying third party API endpoints to storing and surfacing vehicle data to our customers through our own API servers.

You’ll be a confident self-starter and comfortable with a lot of autonomy. You will be working with our data scientists and CTO to design and build platforms capable of ingesting and querying volumes of data that could run into the petabytes.

We’re looking for an exceptional talent who is motivated by a challenge. If you have a passion for platform architecture, a solid understanding of server-side languages like Scala, Java and TypeScript (Python and Ruby are a bonus), are naturally curious, and have problem solving in your DNA, this could be the role for you.

Requirements

Several years of experience in a range of programming languages, most notably JavaScript / TypeScript

Other languages are a bonus: Scala, Java, Python, Ruby

Comfortable with both relational and non-relational database architectures

Experience in building API servers (REST and others) and TCP/IP, HTTP

Good understanding of AWS cloud technologies and deployment strategies (Gitlab pipelines, CloudFormation is a bonus)

Worked with Serverless paradigm and believes it's the future

Collaborative, willing to constantly learn and an attitude to "leave things better than you found them"

Benefits

Be part of a mission-driven, venture-backed startup solving real world problems

Flat hierarchy with autonomy over role and flexible working hours

25 days holiday a year

Great culture and large growth opportunity

If you think you have what it takes then we want to hear from you. So, if you’re excited by the opportunity then apply online now!

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